Women Shaping the South pptx

[...]... some of the major transformative events of southern history from the Revolutionary War years to the Civil Rights era Shifting the focus to the local level, the authors demonstrate how women participated in creating change, even as they often confronted conditions over which they had little power In addition to exploring southern women s lives, this collection as a whole reflects how women shaped southern...Editors’ Introduction At the Sixth Southern Conference on Women s History in Athens, Georgia, in June 2003, the depth and breadth of the research presented was impressive.1 As we assembled the very best of the expanded conference papers, representing the cutting edge of scholarship on southern women s history, we were inspired by a story from the front lines rather than the archives, a contemporary... white insistence upon formalized inequalities marked southern history for the rest of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth The next six essays examine how black and white southern women confronted racism and created the new society in which they lived side by side At the end of the nineteenth century, white southerners brutally reinforced the socially constructed inequalities through a proliferation... Atlanta, St Louis, and other southern urban centers and a black exodus from the Deep South to northern cities that eventually altered the course of southern history Attracted by a wider variety of jobs and the promise of greater personal freedom, many black migrants moved to New York City, where they congregated in Harlem and helped create the explosion of 6 Women Shaping the South African American... doubted the tenacity of these activists in their demands for equality Their actions, like those of the other women described in these essays, illustrate that women were not just “also there” in southern history, they were essential to its transformation And as Sarah White and Local 1529 have forcefully demonstrated, they continue to be 2 Claire Nee Nelson’s essay is based upon the paper presented at the. .. white landowners The region’s economic transformation has 1 Selected papers from the previous Southern Conferences on Women s History, sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians, were published by the University of Missouri Press in the following volumes: 1988 meeting, Southern Women: Histories and Identities, ed Virginia Bernhard, Betty Brandon, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Theda Purdue... familial ties Although these Virginia women had not created the changes they confronted, their reactions to the social, economic, and political transformation of Virginia shaped the new society that emerged Many elite women made the decision to engage in more diversified agriculture, but when they implemented their plans, including rearranging the use of their slave labor forces, they found themselves forced... the wishes of masters who freed their mistresses (or perceived mistresses) in their wills were much less successful at the state-court level, but Pitts demonstrates that these slave women s tenacity did play a role in shaping law Historians often view the South s loss of the Civil War as the defining moment in its history, and many have focused on southern women s reactions to and participation in the. .. Southern Conference on Women s History in Athens, Georgia, that was coawarded the Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student 3 Alisa Y Harrison’s essay is based upon the paper presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women s History in Athens, Georgia, that was coawarded the Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student Gentry Women. .. Campbell focuses on Sherman’s march through North 4 Women Shaping the South Carolina to examine the ways women confronted the changes of the Civil War, particularly the massive destruction caused by the armies Campbell agrees that women suffered widespread anger and frustration during the war and that their resentment sometimes found expression in criticism of the Confederacy itself; however, Sherman’s scorched-earth . forcefully demonstrated, they continue to be. 6 Women Shaping the South 2. Claire Nee Nelson’s essay is based upon the paper presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women s. inequalities marked southern history for the rest of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth. The next six essays examine how black and white southern women